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but illustrates a successful method of planting, as understood 

 generations back ; and the trees cannot but be regarded as 

 memorials of a spirit of enterprise that once existed among 

 those who achieved something wherewith to benefit posterity. 



The acreage of the county is 470,095 acres, and of this total 

 1,370 acres only are devoted to orchards. With these figures 

 in view, it cannot be doubted that a greatly extended cultivation 

 of Apples would be attended with the most satisfactory results. 



It cannot be too forcibly impressed on planters that it is not 

 sufficient to make a good selection of well-grown trees, to convey 

 them carefully to their allotted places, there to plant them, and, 

 after securing them to stakes, abandon them to the elements. 



In many instances the operation of planting Apple trees is 

 performed by those insufficiently tutored to the task ; due attention 

 is not given to a proper disposition of the roots, or to the surface 

 on which they are placed ; and it too frequently happens that 

 the process of planting would be more fitly described as that 

 of unconscious burying ; moreover, the attention afterwards 

 bestowed on them is often occasioned by the necessity of remedy- 

 ing defects arising from neglect or mismanagement. 



List of Varieties of Apples suitable for Cultivation in 

 Oxfordshire. 



Selected by Messes. J. Jefferies& Co., Nurserymen, Oxford. 



Dessert Apples. — Borsdorffer, Cockle's Pippin, Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, Devonshire Quarrenden, Fearn's Pippin, Golden Winter 

 Pearmain, Kerry Pippin, Margil, Eibston Pippin, Sturmer Pippin, 

 Wyken Pippin, Yellow Ingestrie. 



Culinary Apples.— Beauty of Kent, Blenheim Orange, Cellini, 

 Dumelow's Seedling, Ecklinville Seedling, Golden Noble, Han- 

 well Souring, Hawthornden, Lord Suffield, Mere de Menage, 

 Stirling Castle, Warner's King. 



